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Villagers – Fever Dreams //Domino// (Released 20th August)

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£25.99 – Dinked Edition #118

  • Light Blue coloured vinyl *
  • Die-cut sleeve with 4 interchangeable covers
  • Flexi-Disc featuring exclusive track ‘Day One’ *
  • Signed & numbered Obi-Strip *
  • Limited Edition of 1000 *

£24.99 – Die Cut Sleeve with Dark Green colour vinyl

£22.99 –  Standard Black LP

Conor O’Brien is pleased to announce Villagers' fifth studio album Fever Dreams which will be released on August 20th via Domino. Escapism is a very necessary pursuit right now, and Fever Dreams follows it to mesmerising effect. It works like all the best records – it becomes a mode of transport; it picks you up from where you are and sets you down elsewhere.

Coinciding with the announcement, O’Brien has also shared the first song from the forthcoming album, “The First Day”. It was inspired by a trip to the fabled Another Love Story festival in County Meath – beginning as a snatched electronic doodle, it morphed into a widescreen, lushly cinematic evocation of the joy in human connection.

O’Brien says on the gestation of Fever Dreams: “I had an urge to write something that was as generous to the listener as it was to myself. Sometimes the most delirious states can produce the most ecstatic, euphoric and escapist dreams.” These are songs with the strange, melted shapes and the magical ambivalence of dreams. The intent of the songs is both mysterious and as clear as a bell. With Fever Dreams, there is a sense of a deepening mastery and an expanding reach by O’Brien. Inspiration for the album was found in many
places and came in from all angles, from night swimming on a Dutch island to Flann O’Brien, Audre Lorde, David Lynch, L. S. Lowry via the library music of Piero Umiliani and Alessandro Alessandroni and jazz from Duke Ellington and Alice Coltrane.

Written over the course of two years, the main bodies of the songs were recorded in a series of full-band studio sessions in late 2019 and early 2020. During the long, slow pandemic days, O’Brien refined them in his tiny home studio in Dublin, and the album was then mixed by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, FKA Twigs).

Alongside the album announcement, Villagers have confirmed a string of live dates for later this year taking in the UK and Ireland. Fever Dreams follows The Art Of Pretending To Swim, Darling Arithmetic, {Awayland} and Becoming A Jackal. Conor O’Brien also has a string of accolades under his belt including two Ivor Novello Awards, two Mercury Music Prize nominations and is a previous winner of Ireland’s Choice Music Prize. Additionally, Villagers’ music has featured in the BBC/Hulu series Normal People and their Spotify session of “Nothing Arrived” has hit over 165 million streams.

Tracklisting:

Side A
01 Something Bigger                                                                             
02 The First Day                                                            03 Song In Seven                                  04 So Simpatico                                                             05 Momentarily
Side B
01 Circles In The Firing Line                  
02 Restless Endeavour             03 Full Faith In Providence                   04 Fever Dreams                                  05 Deep In My Heart

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Die Cut Sleeve Dark Green LP, Dinked Edition #118, Standard Black LP